Information & Ethics committee  No, I don't have a response on that issue.

Information & Ethics committee  To speak to the Privacy Act review, I know that the Minister of Justice, in her response to this committee, acknowledged that the government was going to undertake a review of the act. It is a complex endeavour, so an issue like that is something that's still under consideration.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I can speak to that a little bit. Institutions have a responsibility or an obligation under our Treasury Board policies to report privacy breaches that are material in nature, both to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner and to TBS. We work quite closely with the Office

Information & Ethics committee  We had the benefit of some recommendations from the Privacy Commissioner in his last annual report on exactly this issue and that office's concerns about the varying numbers of breaches reported. Often, the institutions up that decision about what to do and what not to do. I thin

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Our understanding of the effect of this amendment would be to delete a reference to the Privacy Commissioner's right of review in the section that describes burdens of proof in relation to the Privacy Commissioner or third parties' rights of review. It's related to the previous d

Information & Ethics committee  That's correct. It makes sure that if the previous amendment had been approved/supported, the appropriate consequential amendment would have been made as well.

Information & Ethics committee  Bill C-58 currently puts the burden on the government institution.

Information & Ethics committee  We're taking a look at it.

Information & Ethics committee  Just to clarify, the requester has a right to complain to the Information Commissioner now, under the current proposed section 6, if they feel that an institution, inappropriately, is not responding to their request. A complaint could be made. Similarly, in the future, if the act

Information & Ethics committee  I won't speak to what's more protection or not, but I agree with you that this would be the effect of keeping both in. You're talking about a situation where the Information Commissioner must approve the use of proposed paragraph 6.1(1)(a).

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you.

Information & Ethics committee  The best answer I can give you to that is that the need to receive a request in writing is necessary administratively for the system to operate. If the requester provides (a), (b), and (c) to the best of their ability, an institution is going to be required to respond to that req

Information & Ethics committee  Required by policy advice in addition to what we see set out here. There are supporting documents that give direction to institutions on how to apply the act.

Information & Ethics committee  The policy guidance helps an institution interpret the legislation, so that interpretation would still be the case, which is that as long as there is then.... These pieces of information are requested, and as long as there is “sufficient detail to enable an experienced employee o